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Democracy In America
Volume 2 (of 2)

CHAPTER XI: Of The Spirit In Which The Americans Cultivate The Arts
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The will of the customer is then his only limit.

But at the same time a corresponding revolution takes place in the customer also.

In countries in which riches as well as power are concentrated and retained in the hands of the few, the use of the greater part of this world's goods belongs to a small number of individuals, who are always the same.

Necessity, public opinion, or moderate desires exclude all others from the enjoyment of them.

As this aristocratic class remains fixed at the pinnacle of greatness on which it stands, without diminution or increase, it is always acted upon by the same wants and affected by them in the same manner.


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